Awards

ACM SIGGRAPH has recently named four people to the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy, and one of them is Brown CS faculty member John Hughes, recognized for his outstanding contributions and sustained leadership to computer graphics education and research.

As a PhD candidate in Malte Schwarzkopf's Efficient and Trustworthy Operating Systems (ETOS) group, Dak Albab has made a significant impact through his profound dedication to going above and beyond for his students.

Brown CS has just announced that it's recognizing twenty-four graduating seniors for their academic accomplishments as well as their service to the department this year.

Brown University’s Dean of the Faculty gives out five different awards annually to recognize excellence in teaching, and this year, Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor of Computer Science Malte Schwarzkopf has received the Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Physical Sciences.  

Skylar, a member of the Class of 2026, has earned one of the nation's leading undergraduate scholarships for her achievements in mathematics, engineering and the natural sciences.

Brown CS doctoral student Rahul Sajnani has just been honored with the Best Student Paper Award for his research (“GeoDiffuser: Geometry-Based Image Editing with Diffusion Models”) at the 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).

Joseph was recognized as a leader in his field whose significant contributions meet or exceed the criteria of existing VGTC awards by being inducted into the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy at the annual IEEE VR conference.

Last month, SIGPLAN chose the 2023 work by forthcoming Brown CS faculty member Will Crichton, doctoral student Gavin Gray (formerly at ETH Zürich), and faculty member Shriram Krishnamurthi as one of four Research Highlights papers from the 2021-2023 period.
 

According to The Brown Daily Herald, Brown University is the top producing school of Fulbright U.S. students for the 2024-25 academic year. It's the fifth time Brown has earned the recognition in the past decade. 

 

CAREER Awards are given in support of outstanding junior faculty teacher-scholars who excel at research, education, and integration of the two within the context of an organizational mission.